Question about postproduction/editing videos

envision36 · Oct 12, 2017

Hello all,

I recently purchased Mavic pro and Sony x3000 4K action cam for my upcoming travels. Now I am faced with the question of whether I should buy a laptop for video editing or should I just edit my videos using android programs such as PowerDirection/Kine Master through my android phone. From what I understand I won’t be able to edit 4K in those programs – only in HD, which kind of defeats the purpose of buying 4K equipment in the 1st place. I have an older laptop which is not powerful enough to work with video editing and buying a new one probably won’t justify the cost considering I am not planning to do video blogging on a regular basis and only edit videos once in a while when I go on trips. Also, does that mean I won’t be able to use any 4K videos from Mavic in my editing unless I change the resolution to HD ?

Any advice would be appreciated,

htommy · Oct 12, 2017

i have an old computer and edits my 4k footage just fine in premiere pro after creating proxies,it basically scales it to whatever you want, 720 usually works fine so you can edit your footage and then you export your 4k edits .i usually export 4k downscaled to 1080HD unless you have the internet and computer to display it,it still looks really good

htommy · Oct 12, 2017

you can export to youtube in 4k but you need good internet to play it

htommy · Oct 12, 2017

here’s a youtube i was messing with,im not sure how mobile devices display it

Jayfdee · Oct 12, 2017

Yes it is a difficult decision. I have been flying about 3 years now, and I am hooked, so as my laptop was old I upgraded to a 4K machine, and no regrets, very fast rendering, and amazing quality, I use Premiere.
However I am now about £5K in to this hobby. 1080P is fine for just about everything, see how much you enjoy it. Not really worth the expense of upgrading unless it becomes a serious hobby. Just my 2 cents worth, actually, I am UK, so just my 2 pence worth.

Hamltnlbue · Oct 12, 2017

envision36 said:
Hello all,

I recently purchased Mavic pro and Sony x3000 4K action cam for my upcoming travels. Now I am faced with the question of whether I should buy a laptop for video editing or should I just edit my videos using android programs such as PowerDirection/Kine Master through my android phone. From what I understand I won’t be able to edit 4K in those programs – only in HD, which kind of defeats the purpose of buying 4K equipment in the 1st place. I have an older laptop which is not powerful enough to work with video editing and buying a new one probably won’t justify the cost considering I am not planning to do video blogging on a regular basis and only edit videos once in a while when I go on trips. Also, does that mean I won’t be able to use any 4K videos from Mavic in my editing unless I change the resolution to HD ?

Any advice would be appreciated,

Powerdirector does 4k very well on PC. Doing any encoding on a cell phone would take an eternity.

tcope · Oct 12, 2017

htommy said:
here’s a youtube i was messing with,im not sure how mobile devices display it

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That video is only in 1440, not 4k (2160k on YT).

tcope · Oct 12, 2017

envision36 said:
Hello all,

I recently purchased Mavic pro and Sony x3000 4K action cam for my upcoming travels. Now I am faced with the question of whether I should buy a laptop for video editing or should I just edit my videos using android programs such as PowerDirection/Kine Master through my android phone. From what I understand I won’t be able to edit 4K in those programs – only in HD, which kind of defeats the purpose of buying 4K equipment in the 1st place. I have an older laptop which is not powerful enough to work with video editing and buying a new one probably won’t justify the cost considering I am not planning to do video blogging on a regular basis and only edit videos once in a while when I go on trips. Also, does that mean I won’t be able to use any 4K videos from Mavic in my editing unless I change the resolution to HD ?

I'm guessing you are not going to save the footage, just create a video and then delete the footage? Keep in mind that most people are not going to view YT videos ion 4k right now anyway. Also, 1080 still looks very good on a computer monitor.

I think PD mobile is much better then Kine. Also, PD is $5 for like and Kine is something like $35/year. If you don't want to invest in a computer to edit 4k then I'd say the video's you put out will probably look just fine in 1080. PD for mobile is nice but you are not going to get great edits using it vs an editor on a computer.

htommy · Oct 12, 2017

tcope said:
That video is only in 1440, not 4k (2160k on YT).

i think there is an option there to watch it in 2160,as that was the export settings in premiere pro

Kilrah · Oct 13, 2017

tcope said:
That video is only in 1440, not 4k (2160k on YT).

It IS 4K, if you don't see it it's youtube deciding the device you're viewing on isn't suitable and hides it.

Not the first time you forget about that.

envision36 · Oct 13, 2017

Thanks for all the info, I will try to use PD for mobile for now and will see if that's not enough will eventually consider upgrading to a some form of more advanced machinery once it becomes a more serious hobby.

Montoyee · Oct 13, 2017

htommy said:
here’s a youtube i was messing with,im not sure how mobile devices display it

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This looks really good on my IPad mini 4 [emoji1362] what software did you use btw? I’m trying to edit videos I have on my Mavic as well [emoji28]

htommy · Oct 14, 2017

Montoyee said:
This looks really good on my IPad mini 4 [emoji1362] what software did you use btw? I’m trying to edit videos I have on my Mavic as well [emoji28]

i use premier pro,thanks, im just learning myself